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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #283913 |
Post edited: motivation |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283913 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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How much of an interruption is permitted between a mitzvah blessing and the mitzvah? I was taught that we shouldn't make an interruption between saying a mitzvah b'racha and taking the action. I don't have a source for this other than that it makes sense; you don't want to risk making a blessing in vain if you interrupt with something else and never get back to it, and you should be... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283676 |
Are you saying that all the letters were revealed at once and then the high priest had to assemble them in the right order? I'd been assuming, without much basis, that the letters were revealed one at a time. If it's all at once, does that mean answers couldn't repeat letters? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283673 |
That last one is the one I linked in my question, and what led me to ask the question: they say that, but when I looked it up in Yoma, it didn't seem so clear to me. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283673 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Did the urim v'tummim require binary questions? The g'mara on Yoma 73a gives the following examples of questions asked of the urim v'tummim (Exodus 28:30) and their answers: - "Shall I pursue after this troop?" (I Samuel 30:8). Answer: "Thus says God: Go up and succeed." - "Will Saul come down?" Answer: "He will come down." (I Samuel 23:11)... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283665 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Alternative to Trope Trainer for printing large-print torah portions with trope and vowels? I've learned two things since asking this question: 1. Trope Trainer still works if disconnected from the Internet at launch time (a bit of a hassle, but it's a workaround -- h/t Power Users). 2. The rendering problem I'm having with the pasted text is some problem in Pages, but Google Docs wor... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283644 |
Thanks for the link. How do I select more verses than fit on the screen at one time? They don't seem to support multi-select, only click-and-drag, but the page also don't scroll to show more text during a drag. What am I missing? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283639 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Alternative to Trope Trainer for printing large-print torah portions with trope and vowels? I sometimes help other people in my synagogue learn to read torah. While I have a tikkun, I have some vision problems and find it much easier to print a portion from Trope Trainer, which offers a large-print option. (I'm usually working with one Shabbat aliyah at a time.) Well, I did. Unfortuna... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283553 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: dikduk question. According to Ibn Ezra on Devarim 21:15, שניאה is an adjective while שנואה is a noun. When the verse says: > If a man has two wives, one a loved one and the other a hated one Ibn Ezra is saying that "loved one" and "hated one" here are nouns -- that's the woman's "title", so to speak. It's a s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283552 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Sefaria linker doesn't work on comments. Reproduced: In the comment thread on this post, the reference to Devarim 21:15 does not show as a link when you open the thread on the post page, but if you go to the full thread page it does. I wonder if the Sefaria linker runs once at page-load time, and because the comment thread is not expan... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283543 |
Post edited: Sefaria linker wants a different transliteration, I think |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283543 |
Post edited: added citation |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282734 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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If someone has fulfilled an obligation (like kiddush), can he then do it for others? I had been under the impression that somebody who is not personally obligated in a mitzvah (or maybe specifically a b'racha?) cannot do it on behalf of someone else. This is one of the usual explanations for why a woman can't lead (most) prayer in mixed groups, for example -- she's not obligated so ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282429 |
Post edited: added picture |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282579 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Which haftarah when Rosh Chodesh Av is on Shabbat? This Shabbat is Rosh Chodesh Av. During the three weeks (which we're in the midst of) we read three special haftarot. On Rosh Chodesh normally we read a special haftarah. When they coincide, do we read both or does one take precedence over the other? I suppose I can wait a few days and find out... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282418 |
True. I asked it the way I did because the length of *this* paragraph is unusual, and in chat someone asked me why this one shouldn't be the baseline and maybe I should be asking about shorter paragraphs. Either way, this one is out of sync with, say, creation (one paragraph per day instead of one ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282429 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Is a loft a room for purposes of mezuzah? Consider a cabin that has one large room with a loft extending over part of that room. A half-height wall at the front of the loft separates it from the rest of the cabin, so there is a single common ceiling over all. (Someone standing in the loft can see someone standing in the main room.) Does t... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282418 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Why is parshat Balak written without breaks in the torah scroll? This past Shabbat I was reminded (while watching the torah reader rolling the scroll) that all (or nearly all?) of parshat Balak is written as one long paragraph in the scroll -- three solid columns with no short or long breaks. Why is this? I could imagine that it being about a gentile prophet b... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276876 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282274 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Is starting of Judaism on-topic? Questions at all levels of background are welcome, and this community isn't only for Jews. Basic questions are fine. I'm not sure what you mean about "starting point". The torah, specifically the five books of Moses, records some history that traditional Judaism understands to be true, so if you... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282207 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Sefaria's holding a contest; can our community build something that uses Codidact and Sefaria together? Sefaria has just announced this year's Powered by Sefaria contest. The goal is to attract projects that are interesting and creative and that make use of Sefaria's library of texts and/or open APIs in some significant way. I imagine that, if it didn't already exist, the Sefaria linker that we use h... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282064 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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the wood-gatherer, kiruv, and congregational life Originally given to a group of lay leaders from liberal congregations. Sh'lach L'cha records the incident with the wood-gatherer. To review, on Shabbat two men find a third outside the camp gathering wood, a clear violation of the laws of Shabbat they have been given. The men bring the wood-ga... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282062 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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What was the sin of Sh'lach L'cha? This is a short d'var I gave at a weekday minyan years ago. I came across it while searching for something else and decided its message is still timely. In Sh'lach L'cha we read about the spies who were sent to scout out the land before the conquest. They came back with a bad report and the p... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281865 |
The fox is lying to con the fish, yes, but is it a plausible lie (they actually *did* previously hang out together somehow, so maybe the fish is more likely to believe it) or a bald-faced lie (that never happened)? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281785 |
@msh210 oh, one of the stones on the *choshen*? I didn't realize. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281786 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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how should we organize the prophets tags? I asked a question about a passage from Ezekiel, creating the "ezekiel-book-of" tag in the process. (I followed the pattern I saw with other book tags.) I saw that we also have a "prophets" tag, so I was going to make this new tag a child of it, but then I noticed that "jeremiah-book-of" is a child... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281785 |
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| Edit | Post #281785 |
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| Edit | Post #281785 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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What is the connection between the "tarshish" in Ezekiel's vision and the city Jonah fled toward? I noticed that Ezekiel 1:16, in describing his vision of something like a heavenly chariot (merkavah), says the words gleaned like tarshish, translated "beryl" by Sefaria and some others: > מַרְאֵ֨ה הָאוֹפַנִּ֤ים וּמַעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ כְּעֵ֣ין תַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁ > As for the appearance and structure of the... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281336 |
If a list is too long to manage or isn't getting traction, what about compiling a post with an organized list of useful links (it could be a wiki post) and then adding a link to *that* post in the sidebar? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281538 |
Post edited: clarification |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281538 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Handedness for t'fillin: nature or nurture? I know that t'fillin are placed on the weaker arm, which for most people is the left, so that the stronger hand is the one doing the binding. I have heard, but don't remember where, that someone who is ambidextrous uses the left as well, since the right isn't weaker and the left is more common. W... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281499 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |